Portraits

my most successful portrait is the face portrait because it it captured his emtion at that time and his feeling while he was posting for that photo. my artistic photo is capture with my model playing a roleo f a football coach and he was watching the game but the thing is.... the game is only happening in his mind. and in my photo, i captured when his team was in 3rd down and goal...so it's a intense moment that i'm capturing. adn to be honest, i did not pick out the costume, my model want his pictures to be taken in those costume and it turned out great because he's comfortable in that costume and it look great in my point of view. his ninja costume really make my photo unique because he brought the weapons and all the gears for it.

my surprise photo was really bad, and i think i could done better but i ran out of ideas. my surprise photo was taken after my model (being a football coach) was surprise when his team scored a touchdown. it was really hard to come up with a surprise photo because i have never done this before and i do not know how to make mine look any different from others.

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Out of all 8 compositional tricks that I've learned, i like Macro the most because it give a new point of view on everything. i think i will start using the fill in flash trick more often because since we lived in Arizona and everyday is a sunny day, my emphasis going to be black out most the time so that trick might come in handy. my least favorite trick is the extreme angel bird, because it's hard for me to take picture of things from the top that people haven't seen before. One of my many favorite photo was the simplicity shot of a horse statue in black and white because it somehow give me the "awe" feeling every time i look at it.

Compostional Trick #8: Fill in Flash

Usually people think that when they're out in a bright place, they doesn't need to have flash on. well they can not be anymore wrong about it. because the surrounding is bright, so the camera will adjusted to the surrounding and your picture usually come out with your emphasis beign darken. fill in flash help add light to the emphasis and make it so it have almost the same brightness as the surrounding. i would want to use this trick when i take picture during midday when the sun is really bright or my emphasis is in the dark spot because obviously in the dark i would want to use flash to add light tomy picture and in the midday situation, i would want my emphasis to have the same brightness as the surrounding.

Compostional Trick #7: Drawing with light

Most other photos about drawing with light usually have the emphasis in the dark and have a little light source come in and hit the emphasis. my drawing is about the emphasis in a decent brightness place and have it under a brighter light source place and set the differences between the brightness. when i look at this picture, i get the feeling that my emphasis is looking forward a brighter place. a great light source help create that feeling because it's the brightest spot in the picture.

Compositional trick #6: Framing

Compostional trick: framing is a trick that put a frame into your picture and help create a "frame" around your emphasis and help the viewer easy to figure out your emphasis and not looking around your picture and trying to find your emphasis. my framing pictures are decent and it helps the emphasis in frame for the picture.

Compositional Trick #5:Extreme angle

extreme angle take viewer the the new point of view. For example, people used to look at the soda can from above or straight at it, but they've never seen the soda can from under, so that take the viewer to a new point of view. my pictures of extreme angle photos are not a good example because it doesn't show much extreme angle from the top. i am a short person so the point of view that people look at me from above is not that extreme.

Compositional Trick #4: Simplicity

Simplicity is a trick that help your emphasis stand out from the picture. like when u have a picture of alot of things going on in your picture, the viewer doesn't know which one is the emphasis and they don't know which one to look at. simplicity picture is just basically your emphasis and a plaint background. simplicity doesn't mean the your emphasis have to be simple. it's mean that your emphasis and a simple background so the viewer can enjoy the emphasis.

Compositional Trick #3: Macro

Macro is a trick that help magnify your emphasis and help it stand out more in the picture by blur out the background and its surrounding. this trick can be use when u take picture of small object and try to magnify it and show more details of the small emphasis that normally, we can't see it or didn't pay attention to.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

the leadin lines trick is that you're taking picture of your subject but also there's a line that lead you to it. in other word, leading lines is the lines that lead your eyes into the picture or to your emphasis.

Compositional Trick #1 Rule of Thirds

the rule of thirds is a trick that place the main object in anywhere but the center of the picture. it help the picture capture more of the surrounding instead of just the main subject. the rule of thirds really help creating a unique picture and a unique composition of the subject.